alt Hacker News“Anymore?” After 40 years in software I’ll say that validation of intent vs. outcome has always been a hard problem. There are and have been no shortcuts other than determined human effort.
“Anymore?” After 40 years in software I’ll say that validation of intent vs. outcome has always been a hard problem. There are and have been no shortcuts other than determined human effort.
I don’t disagree. After decades, it’s still hard which is exactly why I think treating validation as a system problem matters.
We’ve spent years systematizing generation, testing, and deployment. Validation largely hasn’t changed, even as the surface area has exploded. My interest is in making that human effort composable and inspectable, not pretending it can be eliminated.